Cash for ailing campuses
De Montfort, Leeds Metropolitan and Thames Valley universities and the London Institute and London School of Economics are the big winners of a competition for extra cash for capital projects. Each...
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Voyage of discovery
Rumours abound at the University of the West of England that UWE's campus neighbour, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, is planning a cost-cutting move to Gloucester - new home of the...
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Professor Craven
Professor Craven has asked us to point out that, contrary to an earlier report in The THES, Mr Merritt resigned before the Lever report was commissioned.
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Payoff for do-gooders
As Volunteers Week gets under way, Alison Utley looks at the personal benefits of helping others. PREPARING an attention-grabbing CV is often the most difficult obstacle facing students applying for...
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Entente gets more cordiale
EUROPE A STUDENT exchange scheme between France and Britain that attracted a huge number of French applicants but only a handful of British last year is to be revived this month on the back of a...
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Oxford shadows
While Labour deploys 1960s radicals gone straight - Tessa Blackstone and Kim Howells - on the government benches, the Conservatives are hitting back with the Oxford generation of a decade later. The...
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Review inertia
Notable for its absence is the government's response to the House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee's report on the implications of the Dearing inquiry for university research. Due by June...
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Cambridge fight
Readers may recall (Antithesis, May 22) the edifying spectacle of top Cambridge University academics attacking campaigning colleague Gill Evans in the public forum of a Senate House debate. The dons...
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Drama crisis
The great thing about a theatrical training is one can always turn a crisis into a drama. Stormy correspondence about the recent loss of staff at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, has been...
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Union calls for industry bond
THE government's comprehensive spending review should set up a higher educaton bond to attract private money into universities, according to the Association of University Teachers. The AUT's 34-page...
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PFI cash cancelled out by cutbacks
MONEY brought in to the public sector through the Private Finance Initiative has been more than offset by deep cuts in public investment, according to a report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies....
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Views sought on RAE panels
A further consultation on the 2001 research assessment exercise will be sent to universities later this month. The Higher Education Funding Council for England is seeking views on how it can...
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Biomedical update
London, Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh produce the most biomedical papers in the country, but Belfast and Leicester are the areas where biomedical output is increasing the most rapidly, according to...
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Editor under fire for report
The University of Hull has become entangled in a censorship row surrounding an MA programme in security studies which has recruited a number of high ranking Indonesian army officials. Concerns about...
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'Whistleblower' is backed by MPs
The National Audit Office has been called on to withdraw a "misleading" report into the fraud scandal at Portsmouth University which saw the departure of two whistleblowers. John Pickering, former...